Blackout Effect

Blackout Effect
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Produced by Anthony Santa Croce
Written by Matthew Bombeck
Starring Eric Stoltz
Charles Martin Smith
Leslie Hope
Music by Gary Chang
Cinematography Alan Caso
Edited by Geoffrey Rowland
Distributed by NBC
Release dates
January 4, 1998
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Blackout Effect (UK: 747) is a 1998 made-for-television disaster/thriller film. Blackout Effect was originally broadcast on NBC on January 4, 1998.

Plot

Eric Stoltz plays John Dantley, an NTSB officer sent to O'Hare Airport in Chicago to investigate a collision between Global Airlines Flight 1025 (a Boeing 757-200 from Los Angeles to Washington D.C.) and PDO Cargo flight 342 (a Boeing 727-200F flying westbound cargo plane), where 185 people are killed.

Charles Martin Smith plays Henry Drake, an air traffic controller who insists his radar system malfunctioned when the planes were being cleared for landing. When the rest of air traffic control dismiss Drake and blame the incident on human error, Dantley must discover the truth about the crash: Was Drake -- a high-strung individual who already didn't get along with his co-workers -- simply incompetent at his job ... or did Drake's co-workers and superiors know about and/or had been previously been warned about the aging radar system showing signs of seriously malfunctioning and crashing at critical times (and thus liable to lead to deadly situations such as the one that happened), but instead of taking action ignored the warnings and initiated a cover-up?

Cast

Actor/Actress Role
Eric Stoltz John Dantley
Charles Martin Smith Henry Drake
Denis Arndt Frank Wyatt
Leslie Hope Karen
Lorraine Toussaint Kim Garfield
Andy Comeau Tim Connors
Tucker Smallwood Harold

Production notes and details

The film is credited in the UK as 747 and is released as such on DVD.[1]

References

  1. Release names for Blackout Effect, Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-07-15.

External links


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